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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 2' 6 NOVEMBER 1987
Yvonne Kenny and Julie Anthony have accepted my invitation to
sing the Royal Anthem and the National Anthem respectively at the
opening of the new Parliament House by The Queen on 9th may next
year. Yvonne Kenny was born in Sydney. At the age of 22 she took up an
opera scholarship at La Scala in Milan, and later continued her
studies in London.
She was encouraged to return to Australia in 1972 by the Victoria
State Opera and has maintained a close association with the
Victoria State Opera and the Australian Opera since then.
Yvonne's most recent engagement was in Brussels, at a festival
commemorating the 100th anniversary of Dame Nellie Melba's first
opera performance, which is an appropriate coincidence in view of
the fact that Melba sang the Royal Anthem at the opening of the
Provisional Parliament House in 1927.
Julie Anthony was born in the Mallee country south of the River
Murray in South Australia.
She transferred to Sydney in 1972 and has lived there ever since
except for a number of professional engagements overseas,
especially in Los Angeles and London, where she is regarded as an
outstanding international artist.
Julie was awarded the O. B. E. in 1980, and has won numerous awards
in the Australian entertainment industry since 1972.
on Australia Day, 1987, she recorded Advance Australia Fair in
what is becoming the definitive arrangement of our National
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